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Beforeyou download each character you have to tell the printer where in its
fonttable to put it. You indicate where by sending this command:
<ESC> *C nE
Fornyou put the decimal number, between Oand 255, of the position in the
font table where you want your character stored.
Your printer’s font table isjust like the ASCII table. Before you send each
character,say g,you have to say where you want to put it.In the ASCIItable,
gisat decimal position 103. So you send this command:
<ESC> *C 103E
And immediately after ityou send the bits that make up the character g.
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The next step isto describe each of your characters, “mapping” where you
want each dot to go. Send thiscommand before each character:
<ESC> (S nW
For Hyou enter the number of bytes you’ll be sending after thiscommand,
to describe and map your character. Sixteen bytes are needed for the
description; the bit-map takes as many bytes as you’ve put into each
character cell—perhaps two or three hundred bytes.
As with thefont header, each byte in the character description is anumber,
sent as the symbol at that position in the ASCII table. Coding character
descriptions is tricky too, so again we recommend you ask your Star
Micronics dealer for help. The table below shows what the bytes in the
character description mean:
82